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Jan. 26th, 2026 05:12 pmLast week, we were all watching the weather forecast. A monster of a winter storm was predicted, snow in the 12-18 inch range. On Thursday, employer announced that offices would be closed today and tomorrow - Monday and Tuesday. Us outpatient providers were expected to work from home or use PTO, and I think my entire team opted for the former. Praise dog for online training courses and calls to clients and the like. Anyway, the storm was kind of a fizzle, with snowfall in my part of the city coming to about eight inches. Still enough to keep me inside and to cause plenty of chaos.
It didn't cause me any real drama. I'd already blown off the weekend con, and frankly I didn't miss it at all. Spent Friday evening with The Friend From Work and that was a delight. Read some on Saturday and Sunday, looked over Mage 20 because I'm going to try a session of that at SYR after the Super Bowl. Rather good weekend, really, for me.
ICE murdered another person in Minnesota. An ICU nurse, legal and registered gun owner who was carrying at a demonstration. He got between ICE thugs and a woman they had pepper-sprayed, and ... well, they straight-up killed him. There is finally some pushback happening, and while it's too late for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, I'll take it. And will hope for more and do what little I can.
In lighter news, the Super Bowl is set. I'm not too excited about a Patriots-Seahawks match, but such is football. There's drama around non-game stuff, of course. Bad Bunny, who I honestly don't know from Adam, is the halftime performer, and because he's Puerto Rican and therefore not their kind of American, TFP are all up in arms. To further wind 'em up, Green Day is performing before the game. I never had a lot of room for Green Day, but I'll almost certainly have their show on while I'm cooking and otherwise prepping for the game.
WFH was nice today. I'm going to dig out my car tomorrow afternoon and make one FtF visit if I feel safe doing so. I still don't think that I'd like a compete WFH job, but a couple of days a week not facing the commuter crawl is appealing.
It didn't cause me any real drama. I'd already blown off the weekend con, and frankly I didn't miss it at all. Spent Friday evening with The Friend From Work and that was a delight. Read some on Saturday and Sunday, looked over Mage 20 because I'm going to try a session of that at SYR after the Super Bowl. Rather good weekend, really, for me.
ICE murdered another person in Minnesota. An ICU nurse, legal and registered gun owner who was carrying at a demonstration. He got between ICE thugs and a woman they had pepper-sprayed, and ... well, they straight-up killed him. There is finally some pushback happening, and while it's too late for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, I'll take it. And will hope for more and do what little I can.
In lighter news, the Super Bowl is set. I'm not too excited about a Patriots-Seahawks match, but such is football. There's drama around non-game stuff, of course. Bad Bunny, who I honestly don't know from Adam, is the halftime performer, and because he's Puerto Rican and therefore not their kind of American, TFP are all up in arms. To further wind 'em up, Green Day is performing before the game. I never had a lot of room for Green Day, but I'll almost certainly have their show on while I'm cooking and otherwise prepping for the game.
WFH was nice today. I'm going to dig out my car tomorrow afternoon and make one FtF visit if I feel safe doing so. I still don't think that I'd like a compete WFH job, but a couple of days a week not facing the commuter crawl is appealing.